Motivational Quotes

Love

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

10.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

11.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

14.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

19.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

21.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

22.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

26.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

27.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

31.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

32.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?